The stuff people throw in the water lately (Master Howlet)

[Manah]

All of a sudden, a massive cruise ship fell into the water above them at the surface, seemingly out of thin air.

"The heck?" Roxy pondered.

[Hoots Rowlet]

"If it's sinking, hold it up." He ordered his Telekinetics/magnetic

10 stones in Statecraft split 2/2/2/2/2 via Jean, Rachel, Fubuki, Psyklos, and Lorna's respective powers to keep the ship from sinking.

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Meanwhile another Travis manifested for Hidden Room time.

[Manah]

"You got it!" Rachel said as they worked together to do it. The girls kept the ship afloat, as it was indeed heavily damaged and likely taking water at that very moment. There didn't seem to be a whole lot of people aboard, though Travis did sense some life signs.

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The Travis at the hidden room opened the door to reveal... a somewhat disappointing closet filled with Starfleet uniforms of various sizes and types, with commbadges in a box.

[Hoots Rowlet]

"I'm bringing them on board." He said teleporting the survivors to the med bay of the base.

10 stones in TP sup-eff to do just that.

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He smiled and put the uniforms away before trying a second time.

10 stones in TP to send the uniforms and badges back to the mansion wardrobe.

[Manah]

He successfully teleported four people to the med bay.

...Four women.

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The hidden room door did open again, and this time, all he found was... an hunting knife?

[Hoots Rowlet]

He manifested another him there to meet them. "Don't panic we are only here to help you. Tell me your names." He ordered.

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He picked up the knife and examined it.

100 stones sup-eff in concentration to learn more.

[Manah]

He manifested before the group of four; seemingly a teacher and her young adult students, most of whom gasped in surprise and backed the heck away from him when he appeared out of nowhere despite his would-be-calming words.

"I swear to God, if you try to touch one hair of my-" the teacher began, only for her to hiccup and cough out blood violently as she collapsed to her knees. Despite this rather unsettling display, she was frankly gorgeous, dark haired with long hair going down to her back, wearing a white blouse, dark skirt and high heels. She was a bit pale and sickly, though.

One of the girls, a petite woman with black hair styled in twintails, wearing a black and red furisode, seemed to recover from the initial scare quickly. "Yuuri-sensei, don't you recognize him? He's not one of the monsters, it's Travis Howlet-sama, the god and Emperor of Earth."

"Oh... oooooh, you're right. I think?" said a beautiful blonde gyaru in a white blouse, blue skirt, dark stockings and mary janes with a blazer tied around her waist.

"That's such a relief!" said a pretty - and busty - redhead with her long hair in a ponytail with braids on each side, with red eyes and wearing a white and black uniform similar to the blonde. "I'm, uh, Kaede. Kazama Kaede. Here's Shirakawa Runa, Kali, and our teacher there is Oreki Yuuri-sensei."

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From a quick examination, Travis figured out he'd gotten his hands on a rather valuable piece. This ancient, slightly curved hunting knife - fashioned with an antler handle, seemingly from some kind of deer, with a serrated-edged blade had once been crafted by the Kurds, and engraved with arcane symbols of a dark, ancient magic. It was a Demon-Killing Knife, said to be capable of slaying demons, spirits, hellhounds and other horrors permanently with a single, well-placed stab or slash.

(OOC: Gained:

-Demon-Killing Knife (+2, 2x damage; Can strike ethereal/phase shifted targets; if even 1w of damage is dealt on a supernatural entity, will cause an AN 10 Atk VS Durability + Magical Defense which will kill instantly, preventing resurrection through Reconstitute Self and similar abilities. NOTE: At GM's discretion, certain entites and beings may be immune to this effect. An ancient Kurds-made knife crafted out of antlers and an unknown metal, engraved with runes and enchanted with magic.)

[Hoots Rowlet]

"You're ill." He moved to the teacher, and began to reinforce her lungs preventing the buildup of blood inside her body trying to treat the internal bleeding at the source. "Here... Let me help you." He said resting a hand on her upper chest and giving a healing light. "You three, can you tell me what happened?" He asked her students. They couldn't be much older than 19 at the very least. He had children older than them probably.

Would that stop him? Probably not, but he would try and behave for now just to be nice.

20 sup-eff in Spellfire (healing) to treat the worst of Yuri's illness and make it so at the very least she lightly cough up blood instead of vomiting an entire liter.

[Manah]

He successfully healed the worst of her illness, leaving her... much, but not quite fully, healthier. She was already beginning to look a bit better, though she was still exhausted.

"W-Woah... that was so cool", Runa exclaimed.

[Hoots Rowlet]

He led her to one of the med beds and lay her down while removing her heels. "Focus girls." He explained. "I still wanna know what happened with that ship?"

[Manah]

"We, um, sort of won a trip on a pleasure cruise. One of those stupid-looking trash emails, you know", Kaede explained. "Of course, it kinda sounded like a scam, so we didn't believe it at first, but then we all received physical tickets by mail along with directions and explanations about the trip. We figured we had little to lose, so we at least went to check it out."

"It seemed legit at first. Big, awesome ship, lots of other people, distinguished crew. But as soon as we got to our cabins, everything went insane. All the people aboard vanished, there were no one else there. The ship looked like it had sunk to the bottom of the ocean and back, old and damaged and disgusting. The feasts proved to be nothing but rotting and dried up food, soaked in seawater. And... and there were, like, ghosts", Kali continued.

"Yeah. We caught glimpses of people sometimes, but they'd vanish before we got there. At first that's all it was, but then, sometimes we'd get to them, and they'd look normal at first, but then, stuff would happen, like you'd see this pretty woman facing away and when she'd turn, half of her face was burned off. It was terrifying", Runa continued. "Then some of them began actually acting aggressive. One of them bashed on our cabin's door for like 10 minutes before he stopped, and another tossed a knife at us, but Kaede-chan deflected it with an old silver plate. That stupid ship is the most haunted damned ship in the entire ocean."

[Hoots Rowlet]

"I see." He said. "Well you'll be safe here until we return back to our world." He explained. "I'm not sure how, but it seems you were teleported to this other universe just as we were pleasure sailing around this ocean world." He explained.

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Meanwhile back at the ship he issued orders to anyone with the firepower, and sights of that ship. "Scuttle that ship. I want to make sure it never resurfaces in one piece again." He ordered the crew, and army.

[Manah]

"I... heard a voice. A voice saying we would be okay, that someone would come save us", Kaede said nervously. "I thought we would die for sure."

"Speaking of which, thanks for saving us", Kali noted.

Their teacher had mostly recovered from her earlier state and stood back up. "...Whatever happened out there, you have my gratitude as well. Thank you... for, well, everything."

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His fleet confirmed his orders, and opened fire, essentially tearing the - quite literally - damned thing apart like nobody's business with extensive firepower, ripping it to shreds. Given its supernatural nature, multiple magically-inclined members of his family used their powers to permanently seal/disable its evil influence on a mystical level, as well.

[Hoots Rowlet]

"Perhaps I can offer some compensation for your hardship." He said. "How about you spend a couple weeks with me back at the Palace while you recover after the trip." He suggested. "You'll be well defended and have access to just about every known luxery in the multiverse." He explained.

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"Good job everyone. Resume crusing." He ordered.

[Manah]

"Well... that'd certainly make for a more enjoyable trip than this hell ship", Kali said.

"Agreed", Runa pondered. "Sounds fun.♥"

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His forces resumed their trip in the Calamarian seas, this time much more peacefully; apparently, the Quarrens had learned their lesson, and no other haunted ship was dropped from the sky.